The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-14
A RACE OF LIARS.
Drunkenness the Most Effective of Forces
In Breaking Down All Sense of Truth
fulness in Its Victims

Drunkenness the Most Effective of Forces
In Breaking Down All Sense of Truth
fulness in Its Victims.
Compunction is impossible in drunk
enness, and the inebriate INDUCES, I'M
restrained, in swarm of vices.
Amongst these, none is more audacious
or contemplate than lying. No mat
ter how "fine fellow the drunkard
may be, his word is taken with sus-
picion or protest. Yet, it is not pre-
sumed that drunkenness strenuously
seeks out falsehood. 1t does not take
much pains to seek any thing The
drunken man simply seizes the shortest
and easiest way to solve any and every
problem presented to him. His moral
imbecility is so great that he holds
truth in cheap estimation. He is in
capacitatcd from Analysing its nature,
for he is incapable of feeling it; and he
is very liable to employ falsehood in all
emergencies that will, in his opinion,
subserve his interest or contribute to
his ease This is especially the case in
things that relate to the qualification
of his propensity for intoxication. In
pursuit of this object, there is pretty
constant resort to some kind of deceit
and Misrepresentation.
Only a few days ago man who is a
frequent and furious spasmodic drunk
ard, and who had recently pledged
himself to total abstinence from liquor,
called to see his sick mother. Having
satisfied his mind that there was not
likely to be any sudden crisis or emer-
gency in her case, he informed her
that he had very pressing business in
two or three of the neighboring towns.
He solemnly declared to her that she
need not be uneasy about his drinking,
as he had not the least desire to in
dulge in liquor. He started for the
depot, and before reaching it, was well
filled with whisky. In two days he re-
turned bloated, shameless and defiant.
His business" was all a lying pretext.
Such men often form their schemes for
a season of drunkenness with great
elaboration and cunning; beginning
their approaches from afar, and never
hesitating to employ mountain of lies
in furtherance of their object.
The chronic drunkard is apt to be-
come habitually false on all subjects
and on all occasions. He is prone to
indulge in stories that are silly as well
as incredible, and that, too, with great
precision of statement, and detail of
circumstance. | knew physician who
had for many years tempered with al
cohol, and morphia, and choral. He
lived in the capital city of Western
State. On visit East he busted him.
self in recountlng wonderful stories.
He informed some friends that sit was
a curious fact that drugs were cheaper
in the Western cities than in the East
ern. Take quinine, as an example,"
said he, Il purchased an ounce out
West, and l was surprised to learn
that the price was only fifty cents. l
told the druggist" he continued, II
would take two ounces at that price,
but he replied that if l took dollars
worth he would make it three ounces
for that money''-and much more in
the same strain.
This habit seems often to be a kind
of automatic representation of the
long-existing moral deficiency insep-
arabic from drunkenness. 1t is the I'M
conscious outcome of prolonged moral
hebetude in relation to many essential
elements of useful life, and especial
ly in relation to the cardinal virtue of
truthfulness. 1t is, however, an Incl
dent showing the innate tendency of
drunkenness to vice and crime.-Jour-
nal Of Inebriety.